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Minneapolis police lieutenant Lucas Davenport and his assistant, a tough policewoman, are stalked by killers recruited as part of a Native American terrorist conspiracy. ``Lucas's personality is the novel's most nuanced . . . other characters, like Sandford's dialogue, are only serviceable, but plenty of gore and action drives the plot forward,'' said PW. (Mar.)

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In the Beginning . . .They were in a service alley, tucked between two Dumpsters.Carl Reed, a beer can in his hand, kept watch. LarryClay peeled the drunk Indian girl, tossing her clothes on thefloor of the backseat, wedging himself between her legs.

The Indian started to howl. “Christ, she sounds like afuckin’ coon- dog,” said Reed, a Kentucky boy.

“She’s tight,” Clay grunted. Reed laughed and said,“Hurry up,” and lobbed his empty beer can toward one of theDumpsters. It clattered off the side and fell into the alley.

Clay was in full gallop when the girl’s howl pitched up,reaching toward a scream. He put one big hand over her faceand said, “Shut up, bitch,” but he liked it. A minute later hefinished and crawled off.

Reed slipped off his gunbelt and dumped it on top of thecar behind the light bar. Clay was in the alley, staring downat himself. “Look at the fuckin’ blood,” he said.

The squad car’s only radios were police- band, so Clay andReed carried a transistor job that Reed had bought in a PXin Vietnam. Clay took it out, turned it on and hunted forsomething decent. An all- news station was babbling aboutRobert Kennedy’s challenging Lyndon Johnson. Clay keptturning and finally found a country station playing “Odeto Billy Joe.”

“You about done?” he asked, as the Bobbie Gentry songtrickled out into the alley.

“Just . . . fuckin’ . . . hold on . . .” Reed said.

The Indian girl wasn’t saying anything.

When Reed finished, Clay was back in uniform. Theytook a few seconds to get some clothes on the girl.

“Take her, or leave her?” Reed asked.

The girl was sitting in the alley, dazed, surrounded bydiscarded advertising leaflets that had blown out of theDumpster.

“Fuck it,” Clay said. “Leave her.”They were nothing but drunk Indian chicks. That’swhat everybody said. It wasn’t like you were wearing it out.It’s not like they had less than they started with. Hell, theyliked it.

And that’s why, when a call went out, squad cars respondedfrom all over Phoenix. Drunk Indian chick. Needsa ride home. Anybody?

Say “drunk Indian,” meaning a male, and you’d thinkevery squad in town had driven off a cliff. Not a peep. Buta drunk Indian chick? There was a traffic jam. A lot ofthem were fat, a lot of them were old. But some of themweren’t.

Lawrence Duberville Clay was the last son of arich man. The other Clay boys went into the family business:chemicals, plastics, aluminum. Larry came out of college andjoined the Phoenix police force. His family, except for the oldman, who made all the money, was shocked. The old mansaid, “Let him go. Let’s see what he does.”

Larry Clay started by growing his hair out, down on hisshoulders, and dragging around town in a ’56 Ford. In twomonths, he had friends all over the hippie community. Fiftylong- haired flower children went down on drugs, before theword got out about the fresh- faced narc.

After that it was patrol, working the bars, the nightclubs,the after- hours joints; picking up the drunk Indian chicks.You could have a good time as a cop. Larry Clay did.

Until he got hurt.

He was beaten so badly that the first cops on the scenethought he was dead. They got him to a trauma center andthe docs bailed him out. Who did it? Dope dealers, he said.Hippies. Revenge. Larry Clay was a hero, and they made hima sergeant.

When he got out of the hospital, Clay stayed on the forcelong enough to prove that he wasn’t chicken, and then hequit. Working summers, he finished law school in two years.He spent two more years in the prosecutor’s office, then wentinto private practice. In 1972, he ran for the state senateand won.

His career really took off when a gambler got in troublewith the IRS. In exchange for a little sympathy, the gamblergave the tax men a list of senior cops he’d paid off over theyears. The stink wouldn’t go away. The city fathers, gettingnervous, looked around and found a boy with a head on hisshoulders. A boy from a good family. A former cop, a lawyer,a politician.

In 1976, Lawrence Duberville Clay became the youngestchief in the department’s history. He quit five years later totake an appointment as an assistant U.S. attorney generalin Washington.

A step backward, his brothers said. Just watch him, saidthe old man. And the old man was there to help: the rightpeople, the right clubs. Money, when it was needed.

When the scandal hit the FBI— kickbacks in an insider-tradinginvestigation— the administration knew where togo. The boy from Phoenix had a rep. He’d cleaned up thePhoenix force, and he’d clean up the FBI. But he wouldn’ttry too hard.

At forty- two, Lawrence Duberville Clay was named theyoungest FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover. He became theadministration’s point man for the war on crime. He tookthe FBI to the people, and to the press. During a dope raid inChicago, an AP photographer shot a portrait of a wearyLawrence Duberville Clay, his sleeves rolled above his elbows,a hollow look on his face. A huge Desert Eagle semiautomaticpistol rode in a shoulder rig under his arm. Thepicture made him a celebrity.

Not many people remembered his early days in Phoenix,the nights spent hunting drunk Indian chicks.

During those Phoenix nights, Larry Clay developed ataste for the young ones. Very young ones. And some of themmaybe weren’t so drunk. And some of them weren’t so interestedin backseat tag team. But who was going to believe anIndian chick, in Phoenix, in the mid- sixties? Civil rightswere for blacks in the South, not for Indians or Chicanos inthe Southwest. Date- rape wasn’t even a concept, and feminismhad barely come over the horizon.

But the girl in the alley . . . she was twelve and she was alittle drunk, but not so drunk that she couldn’t say no, orremember who put her in the car. She told her mother. Hermother stewed about it for a couple of days, then told twomen she’d met at the res.

The two men caught Larry Clay outside his apartmentand beat the shit out of him with a genuine Louisville Slugger.Broke one of his legs and both arms and a whole bunchof ribs. Broke his nose and some teeth.

It wasn’t dope dealers who beat Larry Clay. It was acouple of Indians, on a comeback from a rape.

Lawrence Duberville Clay never knew who they were, buthe never forgot what they did to him. He had a lot of shots atIndians over the years, as a prosecutor, a state senator, apolice chief, an assistant U.S. attorney general.

He took them all.

And he didn’t forget them when he became director of theFBI, the iron fist on every Indian reservation in the nation.

But there were Indians with long memories too.

Like the men who took him in Phoenix.

The Crows

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Ray Cuervo sat in his office and counted his money.He counted his money every Friday afternoon betweenfive and six o’clock. He made no secret of it.

Cuervo owned six apartment buildings scattered aroundIndian Country south of the Minneapolis Loop. Thecheapest apartment rented for thirty- nine dollars a week.The most expensive was seventy- five. When he collectedhis rent, Cuervo took neither checks nor excuses. If youdidn’t have the cash by two o’clock Friday, you slept onthe sidewalk. Bidness, as Ray Cuervo told any number ofbroken- ass indigents, was bidness.

Dangerous business, sometimes. Cuervo carried achrome- plated Charter Arms .38 Special tucked in hispants while he collected his money. The gun was old. Thebarrel was pitted and the butt was unfashionably small.But it worked and the shells were always fresh. You couldsee the shiny brass winking out at the edge of the cylinder.Not a flash gun, his renters said. It was a shooter.When Cuervo counted the week’s take, he kept the pistolon the desktop near his right hand.

Cuervo’s office was a cubicle at the top of three flightsof stairs. The furnishings were sparse and cheap: a blackdial telephone, a metal desk, a wooden file cabinet andan oak swivel chair on casters. A four- year- old Sports Illustratedswimsuit calendar hung on the left- hand wall.Cuervo never changed it past April, the month whereyou could see the broad’s brown nipples through thewet T-shirt. Opposite the calendar was a corkboard. Adozen business cards were tacked to the corkboard alongwith two fading bumper stickers. One said SHIT HAPPENSand the other said HOW’S MY DRIVING? DIAL 1- 800-EAT- SHIT. Cuervo’s wife, a Kentucky sharecropper girlwith a mouth like barbed wire, called the office a shithole.Ray Cuervo paid no attention. He was a slumlord,after all.

Cuervo counted the cash out in neat piles, ones, fivesand tens. The odd twenty he put in his pocket. Coins hecounted, noted and dumped into a Maxwell House coffeecan. Cuervo was a fat man with small black eyes. Whenhe lifted his heavy chin, three rolls of suet popped out onthe back of his red neck. When he leaned forward, threemore rolls popped out on his side, under his armpits. Andwhen he farted, which was often, he unconsciously easedone obese cheek off the chair to reduce the compression.He didn’t think the movement either impolite or impolitic.If a woman was in the room, he said “Oops.” If thecompany was all male, he said nothing. Farting was somethingmen did.

A few minutes after five o’clock on October 5, anunseasonably warm day, the door slammed at the bottomof the stairs and a man started up. Cuervo put his fingertipson the Charter Arms .38 and half stood so he couldsee the visitor. The man on the stairs turned his face upand Cuervo relaxed.

Leo Clark. An old customer. Like most of the Indianswho rented Cuervo’s apartments, Leo was always backand forth from the reservations. He was a hard man, Leowas, with a face like a cinder block, but Cuervo never hadtrouble with him.

Leo paused at the second landing, catching his breath,then came up the last flight. He was a Sioux, in his forties,a loner, dark from the summer sun. Long black braidstrailed down his back and a piece of Navaho silver flashedfrom his belt. He came from the West somewhere: Rosebud,Standing Rock, someplace like that.

“Leo, how are you?” Cuervo said without looking up.He had money in both hands, counting. “Need a place?”

“Aw, man, don’t do this,” Cuervo groaned, straighteningup. He didn’t look at his pistol, but he was thinkingabout it. “If you need a few bucks, I’ll loan it to you.”

“Sure you will,” Leo said. “Two for one.” Cuervo did alittle loansharking on the side. Bidness was bidness.

“Come on, Leo.” Cuervo casually dropped the stack ofbills on the desktop, freeing his gun hand. “You wannaspend your old age in the joint?”

“If you move again, I’ll shoot holes in your head. Imean it, Ray,” Leo said. Cuervo checked the other man’sface. It was as cold and dark as a Mayan statue’s. Cuervostopped moving.

Leo edged around the desk. No more than three feetseparated them, but the hole at the end of Leo’s pistolpointed unwaveringly at Ray Cuervo’s nose.

“Just sit still. Take it easy,” Leo said. When he was behindthe chair, he said, “I’m going to put a pair of handcuffson you, Ray. I want you to put your hands behindthe chair.”

Cuervo followed instructions, turning his head to seewhat Leo was doing.

“Look straight ahead,” Leo said, tapping him behindthe ear with the gun barrel. Cuervo looked straight ahead.Leo stepped back, pushed the pistol into the waistband ofhis slacks and took an obsidian knife from his front pantspocket. The knife was seven inches of beautifully craftedblack volcanic glass, taken from a cliff at Yellowstone NationalPark. Its edge was fluted and it was as sharp as asurgeon’s scalpel.

“Hey, Ray?” Leo said, stepping up closer to the slumlord.Cuervo farted, in either fear or exasperation, andthe fetid smell filled the room. He didn’t bother to say“Oops.”

“Yeah?” Cuervo looked straight ahead. Calculating.His legs were in the kneehole under the desk: it’d be hardto move in a hurry. Let it ride, he thought, just a couplemore minutes. When Leo was putting on the cuffs, maybethe right move . . . The gun glittered on the desk a footand a half from his eyes.

“I lied about the handcuffs, Ray,” Leo said. He grabbedCuervo by the hair above his forehead and jerked his headback. With a single powerful slash, Leo cut Ray Cuervo’sthroat from ear to ear.

Cuervo half stood and twisted free and groped helplesslyat his neck with one hand while the other crawledfrantically across his desk toward the Charter Arms .38.He knew even as he tried that he wouldn’t make it. Bloodspurted from his severed carotid artery as though from agarden hose, spraying the leaves of green dollars on thedesk, the Sports Illustrated broad with the tits, the brownlinoleum floor.

Ray Cuervo twisted and turned and fell, batting theMaxwell House coffee can off the desk. Coins pitched andclattered and rolled around the office and a few bounceddown the stairs. Cuervo lay faceup on the floor, his visionnarrowing to a dim and closing hole that finally settledaround Leo Clark, whose face remained impassively centeredin the growing darkness. And then Ray Cuervo wasdead.

Leo turned away as Cuervo’s bladder and sphinctercontrol went. There was $2,035 on the desktop. Leo paidit no attention. He wiped the obsidian knife on his pants,put it back in his pocket and pulled his shirt out to coverthe gun. Then he walked down the stairs and six blocksback to his apartment. He was splattered with Cuervo’sblood, but nobody seemed to notice. The cops got onlya very slender description. An Indian male with braids.There were five thousand Indian males with braids inMinneapolis.

A large number of them were delighted to hear thenews about Ray Cuervo.Fuckin’ Indians.

John Lee Benton hated them. They were worse thanthe niggers. You tell a nigger to show up, and if he didn’t,he had an excuse. A reason. Even if it was bullshit.

Indians were different. You tell a guy to come in at twoo’clock and he doesn’t show. Then he comes in at two thenext day and thinks that’s good enough. He doesn’t pretendto think so. He really thinks so.

The shrinks at the joint called it a cultural anomaly.John Lee Benton called it a pain in the ass. The shrinkssaid the only answer was education. John Lee Benton haddeveloped another approach, all on his own.

Benton had seven Indians on his case load. If theydidn’t report on schedule, he’d spend the time normallyused for an interview to write the papers that would startthem back to Stillwater. In two years, he’d sent back ninemen. Now he had a reputation. The fuckin’ Indians walkedwide around him. If you’re going out on parole, they toldeach other, you didn’t want to be on John Lee Benton’scase load. That was a sure ride back inside.

Benton enjoyed the rep.

John Lee Benton was a small man with a strong noseand mousy hair combed forward over watery blue eyes.He wore a straw- colored mustache, cut square. When helooked at himself in the bathroom mirror in the morning,he thought he looked like somebody, but he couldn’tthink who. Somebody famous. He’d think of it sooner orlater.

John Lee Benton hated blacks, Indians, Mexicans, Jewsand Asians, more or less in that order. His hate for blacksand Jews was a family heritage, passed down from hisdaddy as Benton grew up in a sprawling blue- collar slumin St. Louis. He’d developed his animus for Indians, Mexicansand Asians on his own.

Every Monday afternoon Benton sat in a stifling officein the back of the Indian Center off Franklin Avenue andtalked to his assholes. He was supposed to call them clients,but fuck that. They were criminals and assholes, everysingle one.

“Mr. Benton?”

Benton looked up. Betty Sails stood in the doorway. Atentative, gray- faced Indian woman with a beehive hairdo,she was the office’s shared receptionist.

Glory be, an actual excuse. “All right. Give me a coupleof minutes, then send him in,” Benton said. Betty Sailswent away and Benton looked through Cloud’s file again.He didn’t need to review it but liked the idea of keepingthe Indian waiting. Two minutes later, Tony Bluebird appearedat the door. Benton had never seen him before.

“Mr. Benton?” Bluebird was a stocky man with close-seteyes and short- cropped hair. He wore a gingham shirtover a rawhide thong. A black obsidian knife dangledfrom the thong and Bluebird could feel it ticking againstthe skin below his breast bone.

“Yes?” Benton let his anger leak into his tone.

Bluebird showed him a gun. “Put your hands on yourlap, Mr. Benton.”

Three people saw Bluebird. Betty Sails saw himboth coming and going. A kid coming out of the gymdropped a basketball, and Bluebird stopped it with a foot,picked it up and tossed it back, just as Betty Sails startedscreaming. On the street, Dick Yellow Hand, who wasseventeen years old and desperately seeking a taste ofcrack, saw him walk out the door and called, “Hey, Bluebird.”

Yellow Hand nodded. He was wearing a dirty T-shirtwith a fading picture of Mick Jagger on the front. Hisjeans, three sizes too large, were cinched at the waist witha length of clothesline. His elbow joints and arms lookedlike cornstalks. He was missing two front teeth. “I feelbad, man. I could use a few bucks, you know?”

“Sorry, man, I got no money,” Bluebird said. He stuckhis hands in his pockets and pulled them out empty.

“That’s okay, then,” Yellow Hand said, disappointed.

“I seen your mama last week,” Bluebird said. “Out atthe res.”

“How’s she?”

“She’s fine. She was fishing. Walleyes.”

Sails’ hysterical screams became audible as somebodyopened an outside door to the Indian Center.

“That’s real good about Mama,” said Yellow Hand.

“Well, I guess I gotta go,” Bluebird said, easing away.

“Okay, man,” said Yellow Hand. “See you.”Bluebird walked, taking his time, his mind inanother place. What was her name? It had been years ago.Anna? She was a pretty woman, with deep breasts andwarm hazel eyes. She’d liked him, he thought, thoughthey were both married, and nothing ever happened;nothing but a chemistry felt across backyard hedges, deepdown in Minneapolis’ Indian Country.

Anna’s husband, a Chippewa from Nett Lake, hadbeen put in the Hennepin County Jail. Drunk, late atnight, he’d seen a Coke machine glowing red- and- whitethrough the window of a gas station. He’d heaved a chunkof concrete through the window, crawled in after it andused the concrete to crack the machine. About a thousandquarters had run out onto the floor, somebody told Bluebird.Anna’s husband had still been picking them up, laboriously,one at a time, when the cops arrived. He’d beenon parole and the break- in was a violation. He’d gottensix months on top of the remaining time from the previousconviction.

Anna and her husband had never had money. He drankup most of it and she probably helped. Food was short.Nobody had clothes. But they did have a son. He wastwelve, a stocky, withdrawn child who spent his eveningswatching television. One Saturday afternoon, a few weeksafter his daddy was taken to jail, the boy walked down tothe Lake Street bridge and jumped into the Mississippi. Alot of people saw him go and the cops had him out of theriver in fifteen minutes. Dead.

Bluebird had heard, and he went down to the river.Anna was there, her arms wrapped around the body ofher son, and she looked up at him with those deep pain-filled eyes, and . . . what?

It was all part of being Indian, Bluebird thought. Thedying. It was something they did better than the whites.Or more frequently, anyway.

When Bluebird walked out of the room after slashingBenton’s throat, he’d looked down at the man’s face andthought he seemed familiar. Like a famous person. Now,on the sidewalk, as he left Yellow Hand behind, as hethought about Anna, Benton’s face floated up in his mind’seye.

Hitler, he thought. John Lee Benton looked exactlylike a young Adolf Hitler.

Meet the Author

John Sandford is the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of the Prey novels, the Kidd novels, the Virgil Flowers novels, The Night Crew, and Dead Watch. He lives in New Mexico.

Brief Biography

Hometown:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Date of Birth:

February 23, 1944

Place of Birth:

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Education:

State University of Iowa, Iowa City: B.A., American History; M.A., Journalism

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I'm reading the Sanford "Prey Series" from the start to current & found this 2nd installment a bit of a disappointment after such a thrilling start to the series in RULES OF PREY. There were so many protagonists involved that it seemed to lack any focus on the primary character(s) & I was so busy keeping track of everyone that even the thrilling Sanford writing style so evident in RULES of PREY seemed lost. I'm hopeful that Lucas Davenport will begin to show the reader some sense of down-to-earth humanity as I read on.

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Second in the Lucas Davenpoart series is a grippimg page turner! Cant wait to start the next installment and each one in sequence!

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In his crackerjack debut RULES OF PREY, New York Times bestselling author John Sandford did a phenomenal job in providing his readers with a womanizing and no-nonsense hero in Minneapolis homicide detective Lucas Davenport. He has amazed his readers in portraying Lucas' breeching tactics upon catching the villains. Such literary elements like the ones mentioned are lacked in his following entry SHADOW PREY.
In chapter two of his notorious Prey series, the ball that Sandford hits with this book falls right into the sandpit. Throughout the entire police procedure, enter through the investigation of several murders, those of a slumlord, welfare supervisor, rising politician and federal judge. For those that may ask on what the connection lies in between all of them, it is in regard to every victim having their throat cut out with an Indian ceremony knife. Throughout the investigation, Lucas partners up with Lily Rothenberg, a married NYPD detective on a personal pursuit of her own to find the killers. Together on the case, both Lucas and Lily ramshackle their way through the derelict streets of Minneapolis; they go on their cat-and-mouse pursuit through urine-stenched residencies to hunt down a group of Native Americans who are driven with a distinct purpose. The ringleader of this particular group, Shadow Love, is one is self-willed and will allow nothing to stand in his way of what he attempts to achieve. It is up to both Lucas and Lily to prevent the body count from rising.that is if they can.
SHADOW PREY, nonetheless, falls short to Sandford's standards with writing a good, solid story. He fails to indulge his readers with the story elements that made him successful in his previous Prey novel RULES OF PREY. The myriad number of inconsistencies that the author tends to draws can and will annoy his fans scene in and out. For starters, the pace of the book in a few of the scenes tends to drag on from time to time. It thereby has the reader finding the storyline to become tiresome at times. Aside form the slow pacing, Sandford fails to weave together all of the loose ends of the story; it makes for nothing but an execrable hodgepodge. Chapter in and out, you are sitting in your seat at home constantly cheering for Sandford to resolve the issues he has going on in the story, only to find yourself disappointed at the end of the road. In addition to all of that, the biggest mistake that torpedoes SHADOW PREY is that Sandford gets too caught up and focused into the loving relationship between Lucas and Lily rather than the case at hand. Readers will find this element portrayed by the writer to rather distracting from scene to scene.
Despite the endless flaws in SHADOW PREY, Sandford does nevertheless make an attempt to compensate them through a few of the intriguing elements that he creates. In one of the good strengths that he portrays through the book, Sandford does a great job with providing his readers with a different lens on the main storyline involving racism. He cleverly gets his readers to view the morality of racism through the vendetta that this Native American group has, especially through a background of people that nobody hears about. The author's most enjoyable function upon creating this entry involves portraying to his readers a more sensitive and vulnerable side of Lucas Davenport. Throughout midway of the story, Davenport almost loses his life in a hostage negotiation with one of the killers. Following the sudden takedo

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Plot was pretty good, twists were nice but the thing that has me gets me I think is Sandford seems to not have decent researchers for his books. The 3 that I have read are just thrown together totally making people who happen to know a bit about it look away to enjoy the story. Sure its fiction but really - it needs to be realistic in my opinion. If you read someone like Pearson or Deaver you see how well they show how research has been done. It makes sense when you get done so you feel exhilirated reading it. Thinking about the twists and turns and getting a dose of reality and fact and in the end a great novel. Sandford just seems to try to keep it action packed with quirky statements and just plain silly tactics so you end with a bitter taste in your mouth. After reading some reviews I think I may be alone on this site however on other sites - its clear, Sandford in his early days was 'weak' at best.

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She lay down and half-closed her eyes blissfully. Every tom close enough to see her probobly thought "what a sexy cat..."

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Strongfire pads in and waits for Foxstorm.

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He stretches out and lays in the sunlight outside of the den. He watches the other cats with a sigh.

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Great follow-up to Rules of Prey. The mystery was solved, but you know Lucas' story will continue. Read the novels I. The order I which they were written so that you do not miss any of the back stories from previous books.

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Excellent writing with wonderful descriptions. All the Davenport series are sequential and should be read in order. Very absorbing with unpredictable endings.
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My second read in the series and I do believe I will "read out" the entire collection.

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Barkjaw streched then heard Daisystar call: " All cats able to catch thier own prey gather under the highrock for a clan meeting!" Barkjaw watched with Treefur by her side. " These sneaky apprentices had a dream they used to save grasskit from a heron!" Barkjaw gasped. " Zebrapaw,step forward. Zebrapaw stepped forward right? Then this moment on he will be known as Zebrastripe. Starclan honores his bravery!" Warriors shouted his new name. His mother,Dustleg,touched noses. " Dawnpaw will be dawnstripe. Flypaw will be Flytree. Tiltpaw will be Tiltice. Fallingpaw will be Fallingleaves. Freezepaw will be freezenose. Dirtpaw is Dirtfur. Dandelionpaw is dandelionfluff. And.... is that it? One sec..."

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A large oak tree sits in a clearing. It has been seen that on a certain night, it glows eerily. Whispers can be heard. Whispers of the past....